A pause on the road

I may try to ignore it, but I feel the energies shifting around me.  It hasn’t really been summer for weeks.  We had three weeks of our worst heat and humidity at the beginning of August, after a comparatively mild summer; when it broke, driven away by tropical storms drifting up the Atlantic coast, I [...]

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Names, teachers, images, and the Work

I was baptized Methodist and confirmed Episcopalian.  I discovered paganism when The Spiral Dance was published and waffled back and forth between Christian and pagan for the better part of twenty years, until I began practicing a form of Hermetic magic that pointed me to Buddhism, and I took refuge.

I am an Anglican, a Druid, a witch, [...]

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Where I sit, where I stand

Thorn Coyle asks:
 

What do I call myself? 25 years ago, I would have said a Witch. These days, I might say I am a Pagan Mystic seeking to spread joy and unfold the Mystery. Twenty years from now, I will likely say something else. Twenty years from that, perhaps I will cease to need any [...]

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I would use the terms Novice, Adept, Master

… Three general stages of spirituality are Initiate, Adept, and Priest. These roughly
correspond to Apprentice, Journeyman and Master in the guild system.
Prior to the Initiate stage, a person experiences a discontent with common religious or philosophical systems. They do not speak to the person’s own Inner experiences, and so the Seeker begins self-knowledge by exploring [...]

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